# Quote — Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

> There is terror in numbers. [...] Perhaps we suffer from a trauma induced by grade-school arithmetic.

- Author: [Darrell Huff](https://www.leafyquotes.com/darrell-huff.md)
- Book: [How to Lie with Statistics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/darrell-huff/how-to-lie-with-statistics.md)
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## More from this book

> "Does it make sense?" will often cut a statistic down to size when the whole rigmarole is based on an unproven assumption.

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> Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias, allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is.

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> It is all too reminiscent of an old definition of the lecture method of classroom instruction: a process by which the contents of the textbook of the instructor are transferred to the notebook of the student without passing through the heads of either party.

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